The SQL Server does not take into account indexes which exist which are similar to the current indexes, nor does it take indexes which are similar to each other into account within its ...

It really is going to come down to how many nonclustered indexes you have on the table, how many transactions per second are writing to the table and how the SQL Server's storage is configured.

SQL Server 2012 includes a lot of new and exciting features. One feature that has caught the imagination of many in the user community is the high-performance feature called Columnstore Indexes.

New for SQL Server 2016 is the ability to place a Columnstore Index on an In-Memory Table.

How to Reindex SQL Tables. The indexes on a the tables of a large database make a huge difference in its performance and utility. Without an index, locating a single record in a large table can ...

Non-clustered Columnstore Indexes are also getting some enhancements in SQL Server 2016. The most notable of these enhancements is the ability to be updated.

I wanted to get some suggestions for scheduled maintenace on a SQL Server 2000 box that is hosting a relatively small database (<=13GB). I already have a weekly integrity check that reorganizes ...

How many is "too many" will vary from one version of SQL Server to another (and other factors, including the size of the table) but SQL Server typically requires an index to return a relatively small ...

When you create the view’s index, the data selected by the view is both materialized and kept persistent and up-to-date by SQL Server 2000. Because the data is persistent, further ...